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...director's last movie had involved creating the largest and most meticulously detailed set ever made: a scale replica of the Titanic. By contrast, Avatar's performance-capture soundstage, which is called the volume, looked like a Saturday Night Live skit about postmodern theater. Instead of sets, gray-painted polygons and the occasional tree were moved around to create topography. For the computer-generated (CG) scenes, which make up about 60% of the finished film, the cast wore clingy Lycra bodysuits covered in markers that were recognized by the 102 cameras on the warehouse ceiling. They donned skullcaps rigged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Arrives! Can James Cameron Be King Again? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Steampunk has been around for at least 30 years, with roots going back further. An early example is K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night, a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in which the Morlocks travel back in time to invade 1890s London. Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, a novel set in a Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron, who had escaped death in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steampunk: Reclaiming Tech for the Masses | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...career but to the fact that they saw you on E! at the gym with the sound turned off, but after a few Coors Lights, this does not bother you at all. The only downside is that your good friend Colleen, who prepartied pretty hard, spends much of the night yelling from across the room, "Oh, it's Joel Stein! He's too famous to talk to me!" followed quickly by "Oh, look! The famous Joel Stein has come to talk to me!" (See the best social networking applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Times At My 20th High School Reunion | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...secure a berth on this baby, you'll need to shell out a minimum of $1,529 for a seven-night cruise, which breaks down to $218 a day. Not terrible for food, lodging and a Broadway show, not to mention the jazz revues, pools and aqua theater at your disposal. A luxury suite can put you out $7,609 a week, or $1,087 per day. Capacity across the industry has increased--15 ships have launched this year, including Carnival's Dream, and 12 set sail next year--so there are deals of less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the World's Largest Cruise Ship Sink or Swim? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...knew an innocent game of Eliot Assassins could turn so ugly?  Find out why Eliot residents should make sure they're sleeping behind locked doors every night...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot Assassins Will Kill You, Even in Your Sleep | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

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